Word: lukewarm
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Since most of the forced relocation has been to grimy working-class districts that have long been Communist strongholds, the party has become sensitive to the issue. Once lukewarm defenders of immigrant workers' rights, the Communists now oppose any further relocation of immigrants in public housing, and will no doubt ride the issue all the way to the presidential election campaign next spring. The Vitry raid was duly denounced by a series of local political and labor organizations. But the liberal daily Le Quotidien de Paris sadly acknowledged that "electorally, it was the most profitable strategy...
...hard-core support is staunchly liberal and thus draws from Carter. So far at any rate, it has scarcely budged. Says a top Anderson fund raiser in Los Angeles: "We'd rather throw our vote away than give it to Carter." Ted Kennedy's supporters are lukewarm about working for Carter. Says one, emotionally: "We can't find it in our hearts to campaign for this guy. Our memories aren't that short." Nor is Jerry Brown, the enigmatic Democratic Governor, embracing Carter. Confides a former aide: "Jerry's been doing a lot of soul...
...that women carelessly opt for abortion is both patronizing and paternalistic. The state should stay neutral in the moral debate between right-to-lifers and proabortionists--it would be equally wrong in insisting that all pregnant women read a statement outlining the difficulties of motherhood. Moreover, the law's lukewarm attempt at preventing abortions will not deter those intent on having them; the only effect will be to drive women--especially minors--away from reputable clinics...
...hodgepodge of lukewarm witticisms and stale contemporary insights, Robbins's latest attempt to explain away the questions that have piqued man's curiousity for centuries succeeds in transcending the limits of arrogance set in his first two books. If he had something thoughtful to say, Robbins might be pardoned for relegating fiction to the role of facade for his musings. But the container he constructs with his la-dee-da plot and plaster-mold characters cannot bear the weight of his philosophical spoutings. The ideas strain to be released until the storyline can no longer bear the pressure...
...four years. It seems unlikely liberals will accept Walter Mondale as his successor, tainted as he is by his vigorous pimping for the president and his bitter attack on Kennedy in recent months. But there are other, new leaders that may be emerging Dellums turned on a lukewarm crowd with his mix of preaching and urban populism. Senator Bill Bradley (D-N.J.), Senator Paul Tsongas (D-Mass), State Sen. Julian bond of Georgia and Gov. Jerry Brown of California are all young, all liberals within the party mainstream, and all rising stars...